Beirut Port Bombings August 4, 2020
Here in this video we will try to say what we know about the causes and circumstances of the explosion.
What happened?
The disaster was preceded by a large-scale fire in the port of Beirut, and videos on social media platforms showed a cloud of white smoke rising from Amber 12 in a warehouse opposite huge grain silos in the port.
Shortly after 6:00 a.m. (0300 GMT), the warehouse caught fire, and a large initial explosion occurred, followed by a series of small explosions, according to some eyewitnesses, that looked like fireworks.
After about 30 seconds, a massive explosion sent a huge mushroom-shaped cloud into the air and spread throughout the city.
The second explosion destroyed buildings near the port and damaged many neighborhoods of the capital, which is home to some 2 million people. The victims of the blast and the injured soon overwhelmed hospitals.
Rescue workers in Lebanon continue to dig under the rubble in search of survivors of Tuesday's devastating explosion in Beirut's port, in which 137 people were killed and nearly 5,000 injured.
Beirut Port Bombings
Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud said that a large population of up to 300,000 people has become temporarily homeless, with total losses amounting to between $10 billion and $15 billion.
"What we have witnessed is a terrible disaster," said George Kittani, head of the Lebanese Red Cross. Victims and wounded are everywhere."
The port of Beirut has been completely destroyed, the most vital and money-generating facility in Lebanon. turned into debris and ashes.
The Beirut bombing, which took place last Tuesday, came at a time when the "Eastern Switzerland", as some call it, still scars of the civil war that ended three decades ago and demonstrations, but at a time when economic pain and the collapse of the new Corona virus are still fading.
The Lebanese woke up to a dusty capital, not Beirut, in all its elegance, despite the horrors.
The Lebanese capital has become a quiet scene, as a result of the explosion of a large stockpile of ammonium nitrate.
Seismologists also measured the pressure of the explosion that ripped through windows at Beirut International Airport, 9 kilometres away, equivalent to an earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale.
The satellite monitoring page, a picture of Beirut's port and its surroundings, before and after the explosion, also posted the first photo on May 31, 2020, while the second was taken on Wednesday morning, August 5. The explosion.
Beirut's port, Lebanon's most dynamic and fund-generating facility, was completely destroyed by a massive explosion on its territory on August 4.
Beirut became a disaster city, given the scale of the destruction, the scale of the explosion and the storm felt by the inhabitants of the mountainous areas outside Beirut, which also reached Lebanon's neighbors.
The blast, which rocked Beirut's port, was caused by the amount of ammonium nitrate found in Ward 12 more than six years ago, senior security sources said.
But what we see as we see in this footage shows that the explosion was caused by a direct missile on the port of Beirut.
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